Friday, March 03, 2017

For about the thousandth—or is it the millionth?—time, the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal has attacked Donald Trump. But this time there’s a twist. The Journal’s latest hit-piece targets Trump’s top advisers, Stephen K. Bannon and Stephen Miller, both champions of the populist nationalist policies that propelled Trump to victory.

In their February 27 editorial, the Journal’s editorial board argues that President Trump is acceptable only if he supports the Journal-approved agenda of tax cuts and deregulation, which Trump does. However, Trump’s signature issues of economic nationalism and border security are most definitely not acceptable. The Journal calls these positions “Bannonism”—and that’s not meant as a compliment to Steve.

In reality, the Journal knows that “Bannonism” is really just “Trumpism.” Trump embraced economic nationalism and border security long before he ever met Bannon or Miller, whom he refers to as “my two Steves.” Of course, that’s why the Journal’s editorialists have opposed Trump all along. But now they’re pretending that Trump could be forgiven for his populism, if only he rids himself of his two Steves.

What is funny is when you find yourself on both sides of this wheedling offer. SJWs were trying to get me to disavow Roosh at the same time others were trying to get Milo and Mike Cernovich to disavow me.

Needless to say, no one bit. The Left clearly thinks our memories are regularly erased on the same short-term schedule as theirs are.

Their existence depends on making us fight each other. If we ever actually came together... we would have a very healthy lamp post and rope industries to complement our helicopter and woodchipper industries

What did Trump think was going to happen when he handed the SJWs the Flynn confession? Did he really think it would make anything stop? He did the same with the Jewish grave vandalism hoax. Now he's done it with Sessions. Trump needs to read SJWs always. Giving in to media-concocted hoax narratives like "Flynn misled", "rising antisemitism" and "Sessions compromised" only encourages more attacks. I'll bet Trump wishes he had a time machine so he could go back and make the right decision about Flynn.

Stuff like this worked pretty well on GW Bush and his daddy, it's just how they are to be managed by their ink stained betters. The swamp stream is just doubling down on what's worked in the past. Like retirees in a casino playing the slots, waiting for that big payoff.

This election cycle, with the Emperor at its center, has done more to expose the vile underbelly of the media in this country than anytime in my lifetime. Hopefully in the next couple years it will lead to the breakup of the 6 companies that control the vast majority of what passes as news.

It must really sting when decades-long effective tactics no longer work.

Psychopathic neocon, but I repeat myself, Col. Ralph Peters was drama queening on Fox this morning. Peters said Trump would be a failed president unless he "denounced" Putin. Jesus. These people are fucking dead and have no clue.

The "media" follow, they don't lead, and they lag badly at turns. Their antics get funnier by the day.

I liken them to a drum major waving his baton ahead of the band, who thinks he leads until one day the band makes a right turn behind him and he responds by waving his baton twice as hard, even blowing his whistle twice as loud as they march away.

BTW, the Sousaphone player in back took a moment to turn and flip him the bird while wearing a Pepe-smirk. "Feelz Good-Man."

"What did Trump think was going to happen when he handed the SJWs the Flynn confession?"

You've got it backwards. Trump doesn't care about their petty narratives. Flynn's actions got him fired, the media only highlighted an actual discrepancy. Sessions' recusal was unnecessary but not wrong and pretty much irrelevant.

Alinsky Rule #1: "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have."

Trump isn't playing politics or the media game of gotcha, he's the President. The top CEO. He does what he wants and is not in the least bit intimidated or coerced by the media. They're locked in here with HIM.

He's been systematically dismantling them via #FakeNews for months now. They were 88% hostile to him in his first month. He's goading them into being transparently partisan and they're too stupid and corrupt not to take the bait.

So, despite them being absolutely opposed to him for two years, what power does the media ACTUALLY hold over Trump? None.

This is confirmation that the Brotherhood of Steves is real. We've got our eyes on you, BGS and Steve.

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From the Breitbart link -"we had a full meeting some — a week or so ago, and planned to have a meeting today. It was on our schedule to make a final decision about whether or not I should recuse myself. And the reason I believed I should recuse myself is because I was involved in the campaign."

He had already discussed it, was going to do it, and had another meeting on his calendar. How hard is it for an opportunistic leaker to put two and two together and demand he do something he was going to do anyways, throw in a bullshit charge of OMG! RUSSIA!! and claim a scalp? I think it's plausible.

Their attack on Sessions was so amazing that they've already ignored it in 12 hours. That's impressive. Now it's on to the Twin Towers of Steve. This one won't work either.

While I've been a tad concerned about Jared Kushner being a senior advisor, there's some deeply brilliant logic in having him around. Because attacking Kushner is attacking a highly connected NY Democrat family (see his father Charles) and a proxy attack on Trump & Ivanka. So you end up attacking a Jew married to the smoking hot Ivanka, who is Trump's daughter. Most Americans will have issues attacking any combination of: Jews, Politician's Daughter, Smoking Hot Woman, Woman with young children.

Why are people (on our side) still paying ANY attention to the MSM? Don't buy their papers, visit their websites, watch their channels, or go to their movies. I swear, if you just ignore them for even a day or two, your overall mood will improve and you'll have more energy for the things that really matter.

"Abigail Peterson, an attorney for 22-year-old Daniela Vargas, tells news outlets that authorities informed her Thursday that Vargas' case will be handled as a "visa waiver overstay," which means she won't be given a hearing and will be flown back to her native Argentina.ICE agents detained Vargas on Wednesday after she spoke at a news conference in Jackson, Mississippi, and called on President Donald Trump to protect immigrants like her."

Knight Of the Realm wrote:This election cycle, with the Emperor at its center, has done more to expose the vile underbelly of the media in this country than anytime in my lifetime. Hopefully in the next couple years it will lead to the breakup of the 6 companies that control the vast majority of what passes as news.

Unfortunately it won't for the most part. Most of these news orgs are not even expected to make money. They are all propped up by other revenue streams. NBC,CBS,ABC all have non-news broadcast shows propping them up. They will not fail unless someone decides to start yanking the licenses for blatant lies. NPR/PBS is being funded by us suckers. There is a reason the NYT is reffered to as "Carlos Slims Blog". WaPo is propped up by Amazon. NBC is further propped up by GE etc.

The people running these organizations are perfectly happy to lose money if it means advancing the narrative. They will run these organizations indefinitely as long as they can make money at other endevours to prop them up.

This very word "dreamer" is an obscenity and should not be used. Don't accept the enemy's frame. They are vile. They are criminal. They have no legitimacy. Don't dignify their frame.

"Oh, so you're a DREAMer? You have a DREAM of sponging off somebody else's country who built that country without you or your DREAMs in mind? Guess what, I'm a DREAMer too, and my DREAM is of having a country minus your stinking, begging twaddle. Go away."

Old Ez wrote:What did Trump think was going to happen when he handed the SJWs the Flynn confession? Did he really think it would make anything stop?

I doubt he thought any such thing. What he thought was probably that it doesn't matter nearly so much whether the Left *thinks* it's taking scalps as it does whether Flynn is an actual liability. Having let the Left "win" one for his own purposes doesn't mean he's doing it for the reasons he thinks, or even that they're benefiting from it. I don't know what went down with Flynn, but I'm not worried that Trump is going to be prone to throw people under the bus. Maybe he made a mistake, maybe he didn't, but I wouldn't extrapolate from the one incident.

1) accuse Trump et al of some skullduggery or other 2) wait 48 to 72 hours 3) end up looking like a dumbass 4) repeat, thinking that nobody remembers what happened three days ago 5) wonder why nobody takes you seriously 6) repeat from the top

If the Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. at the behest of the President begins his investigation of U. S. Russia relations at the logical starting point, that is, our novel, tradition-breaking, buttony "reset" with Russia, and proceeds slowly and methodically forward from there, reviewing Russian-U.S. lobbying, Russian acquisition of critical U. S. commodities like uranium, etc., etc., the formal recusal of his boss Jeff Sessions becomes not only moot but imminently more efficient: every minute Sessions isn't spending on Russia personally himself is one more minute he has to devote to enforcing immigration law.

The phrase "be careful what you wish for" was pretty much created for Democrats at this sort of juncture, thinking they've taken a scalp, not realizing all they're really waving triumphantly in the air is a toupee.

What did Trump think was going to happen when he handed the SJWs the Flynn confession?

Do you think if Trump handled the Flynn or Sessions situations differently, the WSJ wouldn't have written this, or the Left in general would back off for a day?

Come on. We might as well get used to it: Leftists and their cuckservative buddies are going to keep attacking him every day that he's in office. That's about 2900 more days of SJWs calling him LiterallyHitler and cucks saying he'd be great if he just let them teach him some manners. They will not stop, no matter what he does.

So he shouldn't do anything to try to mollify them, but he shouldn't do things he doesn't want to do just to look tough to them, either. Either one would be letting them manipulate him. He should ignore them and continue implementing his platform, doing what he thinks is right about whatever issues pop up along the way. Which is what he's doing.

Trump is likely A/B testing how to handle the media. He attacked them and stood firm the first month. Now he's giving in to a few of their reasonable demands and seeing how that is turning out. Once he determines that nothing will satisfy them, he'll go back to waging war on them. Trump has patterns and visible techniques, but few in the swamp will pull their heads out of their asses and take note.

A handy bit of psy-ops, which I'm sure has not escaped the notice of the Ilk, but I'll underline it simply for utility purposes.

Find reasons to say "President Trump" as often as possible. Not "that Trump dude" but PRESIDENT Trump. Insert it into your conversation whenever you can, as often as you can, just to fuck with them. "Well, I'm not sure whether PRESIDENT Trump would prefer the clam chowder or the Caesar salad as a starter, but I think, without knowing what PRESIDENT Trump's opinion would be, that I'll go with the Caesar salad. I'unno, a Caesar salad just sort of sounds like something PRESIDENT TRUMP would order. Order, heh, that's another great word, I love it when PRESIDENT TRUMP issues orders. It's so... Presidential."

The Wall Street Journal has been for invading the world and inviting the world since the early 90s at least. Here I will argue against the Wall Street Journal dialectically. The Wall Street Journal says that they advocate pro growth economic policies. Well, inviting the world leads to greater spending for the welfare state, and also a block of voters who will vote for bigger government. The costs of invading the world in the destruction of lives and property is great too.

Like, I love it that whenever Ace over at AoSHQ refers to Hillary Clinton, he adds, "who will NEVER be president of the United States."

I hear that Hillary Clinton, who will NEVER be president of the United States, has a daughter who just published a book. Did I mention that Hillary Clinton will NEVER be president of the United States?

"Unfortunately it won't for the most part. Most of these news orgs are not even expected to make money. They are all propped up by other revenue streams. NBC,CBS,ABC all have non-news broadcast shows propping them up. They will not fail unless someone decides to start yanking the licenses for blatant lies. NPR/PBS is being funded by us suckers. There is a reason the NYT is reffered to as "Carlos Slims Blog". WaPo is propped up by Amazon. NBC is further propped up by GE etc. "

Further down the rabbit hole, Carlos Slim is propped up by his remittance monopoly and the Mexican government, which is propped up by dumping their problems on the US, which is propped up by the globalists and their errand boys in Congress. Amazon is propped up by a $600 million contract with the CIA, which is propped up by a "black" budget passed by Congress...

I would just like to point out to everyone who is claiming that Flynn really did lie; that he really did betray; and that Trump really genuinely had no choice but to get rid of him - all of these are completely media-concted hoaxes that the Trump administration *explicitly denied* right up until the day before Flynn's resignation. The media was spinning these lies for a week and the administration was *denying* them for a week. Only when the media didn't let up was Flynn forced to resign. If what you folks are arguing is true - that Flynn really did lie and betray and genuinely had to go - Trump would not have sat on it for two weeks. He would have axed him immediately. Either that or he is not the iron-fisted manager you claim he is. But it can't be had both ways. If Trump was an iron-fisted manager and Flynn really lied, he would have been out as soon as Trump found out what happened, not two weeks later after torrents of shrill media kvetching.

What I really want to see right about now (and which I think President Trump is making a grave tactical mistake by not doing) is to see President Trump fir the ENTIRE State Department, en masse, and then make them each individually apply for their jobs back, complete with humiliating HR interviews and scrutiny of their Faceberg and Twitter accts, followed by most of them being turned down in favor of some H1B Pakistani.

I don't know why he isn't doing that right this second. Well, I'm not a God-Emperor after all; what great ones do, the less will prattle of.

You may know, this past summer Obama had the FBI duplicate the hard drive of, and then search, a key computer in Trump Tower, looking for anything in a fishing expedition. When the FBI cleared Trump, Obama asked the FISA Court for permission to WIRETAP Trump DURING THE CAMPAIGN! When that was denied, he asked for authority to wiretap all his campaign officials, and HE GOT THAT! Then, just before leaving office, he had the NSA forward all the confidential personal info to all the 16 other Federal espionage agencies to ensure there would be MULTIPLE leaks from his hold-over staff! These are CLASSIC Police State tactics!

Old Ez wrote:I would just like to point out to everyone who is claiming that Flynn really did lie; that he really did betray; and that Trump really genuinely had no choice but to get rid of him - all of these are completely media-concted hoaxes that the Trump administration *explicitly denied* right up until the day before Flynn's resignation. The media was spinning these lies for a week and the administration was *denying* them for a week. Only when the media didn't let up was Flynn forced to resign. If what you folks are arguing is true - that Flynn really did lie and betray and genuinely had to go - Trump would not have sat on it for two weeks. He would have axed him immediately. Either that or he is not the iron-fisted manager you claim he is. But it can't be had both ways. If Trump was an iron-fisted manager and Flynn really lied, he would have been out as soon as Trump found out what happened, not two weeks later after torrents of shrill media kvetching.

Or he could have been fact finding around what exactly happened while still working on running the country and advancing his agenda.

Sessions should have just ignored the groundless allegations of the Monolithic Media, refused his recusal, and said "Yes, the Russian ambassador and I had a friendly chat about our grandchildren." LOL!

Terry Hemphill wrote:You may know, this past summer Obama had the FBI duplicate the hard drive of, and then search, a key computer in Trump Tower, looking for anything in a fishing expedition. When the FBI cleared Trump, Obama asked the FISA Court for permission to WIRETAP Trump DURING THE CAMPAIGN! When that was denied, he asked for authority to wiretap all his campaign officials, and HE GOT THAT! Then, just before leaving office, he had the NSA forward all the confidential personal info to all the 16 other Federal espionage agencies to ensure there would be MULTIPLE leaks from his hold-over staff! These are CLASSIC Police State tactics!

This is largely being ignored by all sides. Obama basically went full police state and abused his powers for political gains. This is a huge scandal and strictly speaking a crime. I am still holding out hope that Sessions has been so quiet because he compiling as much evidence as possible against Obama and his staffers.

To further my hopes I am wondering if Jarret moved in with the Obama's not to "take down Trump" but to make Sessions consider the consequences of the FBI getting into an altercation with Obama's protection detail when trying to arrest Jarret.

basementhomebrewer wrote:To further my hopes I am wondering if Jarret moved in with the Obama's not to "take down Trump" but to make Sessions consider the consequences of the FBI getting into an altercation with Obama's protection detail when trying to arrest Jarret.

I doubt that is the reason but I guy could hope.

Obama and Jarrett would be in for one rude awakening at that point. His protection detail does not grant immunity now that he is out of office.

JAG wrote:basementhomebrewer wrote:To further my hopes I am wondering if Jarret moved in with the Obama's not to "take down Trump" but to make Sessions consider the consequences of the FBI getting into an altercation with Obama's protection detail when trying to arrest Jarret.

I doubt that is the reason but I guy could hope.

Obama and Jarrett would be in for one rude awakening at that point. His protection detail does not grant immunity now that he is out of office.

While in theory this is true, in practice I question if it really shakes out that way. Based on casual observation protection details have tended to stay loyal to their protectees first above all else. I believe about a year ago there was a story about the secret service aiding Pelosi in breaking multiple local laws in San Fran.

I was making the same argument about the Msm the other day. They make the critical mistake of assuming that everyone is just like them. To me, Rathergate is still a fresh stain on their reputation. At this rate, it will end up as religious doctrine that news reporters are in an immoral line of work, akin to thieves.

@63:"While in theory this is true, in practice I question if it really shakes out that way. Based on casual observation protection details have tended to stay loyal to their protectees first above all else. I believe about a year ago there was a story about the secret service aiding Pelosi in breaking multiple local laws in San Fran."

I believe the Secret Service has the discretion to violate some laws to ensure they maintain proper protection. For example, I doubt they'd let any local cop handcuff and cart away the person they are assigned to protect. But, a proper warrant served at home, for example, and confirmed valid by Secret Service HQ, would, I am sure, not be ignored.

I'm more concerned that Trump is agreeing not to arrest illegal aliens at protest rallies or in churches. The idea that a church in the US offers sanctuary to criminals is absurd and needs to be eradicated. The same applies to the concept that illegals can congregate and safely protest without consequence. Just a few ICE raids on churches and rallies would go a long way toward establishing law and order.

Edward II and Richard II, your offices are calling. This is the oldest story in the book...don't attack the king directly, but plead that the king would be good if only he rid himself of these terrible advisors. As soon as the close advisors are gone, kill the king.

Trump is right not to fall for this. If he did, he'd have no business trying to run the country.

No surprise here. Call it the last stand of Pogrom Paranoids. Bret Stephens, Max Boot, & Paul Gigot: shilling for open borders since forever. No western nation can be allowed to remain too homogenous, too white, too Christian. All such nations must submit to our open borders social engineering scheme to avoid ever becoming intolerant. This is the last stand of the wretches who waged war on Tom Tancredo, Pete Wilson, Pat Buchanan, Prop 187, Prop 200, & any other pro-sovereignty voice of the past 3 decades. So long & good riddance to the inheritors of Bob Bartley's one world dementia.

@Pteronarcyd"I'm more concerned that Trump is agreeing not to arrest illegal aliens at protest rallies or in churches."

Yeah, this is bad. Highest priority for deportation (even higher than alien felons) should be illegal aliens featured in the media or trying to influence US politics. Heck, try taking part in a political demonstration in Mexico as a foreign national. The cops won't care that you're in the country legally-- you're outta there. Many such cases.